چکیده مقاله
This study examined the effect of problem solving tasks on upper intermediate Iranian EFL learners' oral performance In the first step, 52 homogeneous upper intermediate students from intact classes were chosen from a private language institute in Zarrindasht, Fars, Iran and randomly divided into two equal groups, namely an experimental group and a control group Then they were pretested through a researcher made speaking test extracted from Prospect3 The learners in the experimental group received problem solving tasks And the control group, on the other hand, was engaged in the ordinary program of the classroom; they were taught using the audio lingual method of teaching; they did not receive the problem solving tasks After the treatment which took 12 sessions, the researcher administered the modified version of the mentioned pre test as the post test to find out the effect of the problem solving tasks on the participants' oral performance When the data were collected, Independent and Paired Samples T tests were run to analyze them The results showed that experimental group outperformed the control group in the post test The findings indicated that problem solving tasks improved upper intermediate Iranian EFL learners' oral performance
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نویسندگان
Rasool Mirshekaran
English Department, Chabahar Maritime University, Chabahar, Sistan va Baluchestan, Iran
شیوه ارجاع
Mirshekaran, Rasool,1402,The Impact of Problem-Solving Tasks on Oral Proficiency among Iranian upper-Intermediate EFL Learners,The 16th International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture and History
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مجموعه مقالات شانزدهمین کنفرانس بین المللی زبان،ادبیات، فرهنگ و تاریخ27 مرداد 1402